clipped from www.treehugger.com

The world’s scientific community has determined that global warming is a human-caused crisis of the highest order, threatening our economic prosperity, international security, environmental stability, and the survival of millions. The need to act is urgent: the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says, “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two or three years will determine our future.”

The candidates are not alone—American business leaders, the mainstream media, local elected officials, and a large majority of voters get it: global warming is real; the need to deal with it is urgent; the time to act is now. So it’s disconcerting to see that the country’s top five political reporters have not joined the rest of us.